On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:33:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
I want to run software only from Stable (ie Etch) when I am doing
non-debian related work. However, when I am doing debian related work
(ex :- fixing some bugs in the BTS) I want to work in unstable (ex :-
compile
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:15:48AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
These two choices suffer in that you can't get a graphical
environment within them. So if you build a package for sid
which used Xorg you couldn't test it.
That's not exactly sure. You'll have a bit overhead
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:29:36PM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
i am not quiet sure about sudo, since it asks from time to time a
password.
Unless you add NOPASSWD: to the entries, so for example I can
allow the user skx to restart memcached with this stanza:
Cmnd_Alias MEMCACHED =
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:35:00PM -0500, Kit Peters wrote:
Posted to debian-user *and* debian-mentors in the hope of getting a good
answer on this.
Probably better suited to debian-user, but I'll leave the cc just
on the off-chance.
We have chosen to do this by maintaining our
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
Any suggestions what can be done? Singular's configure scripts seem to
refuse to compile without the omalloc library. I'm getting impatient
waiting for a response from the Singular development team, which did
answer
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:45:51AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Could you please check it, and if you feel now it's ok, upload it in debian?
Uploaded now.
Please mail me, off-list, when you have a new xmmsctrl package
to upload and I'll be happy to keep sponsoring you and it.
Steve
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:50:32PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package xmmsctrl.
I will sponsor your package for you if you can fix the build
errors I'm seeing:
# Add here commands to install the package into debian/xmmsctrl.
/usr/bin/make install
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:04:29PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:50:32PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package xmmsctrl.
I will sponsor your package for you if you can fix the build
errors I'm seeing:
The fix is simple
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:48:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have prepared Debian packages for Dibbler - an open and portable DHCPv6
implementation. Is supports stateful (i.e. IPv6 address granting) as well
as stateless (i.e. option granting) autoconfiguration for IPv6. It is
one
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:57:21PM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote:
while on the other archs the package was built correctly.
What's the problem?
Does your package build-depend upon xlibs-dev?
Ehm... no!
I still cannot understand why it could be built on the other archs.
It does
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:24:59AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote:
What do you people think of modifying the window managers to look for
skippy and start it when initing? For example, we could patch metacity
to have an option on its capplet that allows you to enable skippy-like
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:39:42AM +0100, Niv Altivanik wrote:
Are you packages from http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian updated against the
ones sitting on NEW?
I've just reuploded them there ( the skippy-0.5.0-cdbs directory ).
Once the current package has made it out of NEW I'll happily
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:07:45AM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote:
Skippy is a nice piece of software.
Agreed.
Gustavo Noronha and I were talking (in CONSOL[1]) about how would be the
best way to package skippy. Honestly, I haven't had the chance to check
any ITP/related-work on this, so
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:24:27PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Personally, I think it's a shame. Then again, I
have not (yet, I hope) earned for my key to be placed in the Debian key
ring, so one may say I have not earned the right to complain.
I think that's exactly backwards.
Most
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:26:06PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Alexis Sukrieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.02.05.1852 +0100]:
You can grab the package on my personal repository:
deb http://www.sukria.net/debian ./
deb-src http://www.sukria.net/debian ./
The package
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Niv Altivanik wrote:
Hi, I have previously posted on this mailing list to ask for someone
to get interested in my packages, without any response, hope I'll get
more chance this time.
I'm surpised, I thought I remembered a response.
they are all
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:41:29PM -0600, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote:
Marc, thanks that was the problem !!!
sprintf(message, say -s 4 -a \%s\, buffer); this was the big
big big mistake
It certainly was.
I added the hole path to the instructions:
sprintf(message, /usr/local/bin/say
`ud` is a package I've looked after for a while now, after adopting
it in the past because I used it personally.
It is an `uptime monitor` which will write out a status page
keeping track of your three highest uptimes.
Recently it was raised upon the debian-amd64 list as being the
kind
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:05:03PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
Is bash an option?
Not easily.
Steve
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:30:31AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
I don't want to have a package for every upstream data file which is
DFSG free. So I'm strongly considering to merge these and work that
way. I'd like to receive advices about the matter.
If it were me I'd have just two packagse:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:49:05PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote:
One question though: should I file an ITA against nslint first, or was
it enough to consult Tommi and upload with the new maintainer
name/address in control file and changelog?
It's not been orphaned in the traditional sense so
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:49:05PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote:
One question though: should I file an ITA against nslint first, or was
it enough to consult Tommi and upload with the new maintainer
name/address in control file and changelog?
It's not been orphaned in the traditional sense so
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted the sources to
match.
One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed
into /usr/games/, instead you chose /usr/bin.
For a game that is suprising, so I'd suggest
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Okay, I've renamed this to orbitalsniper and adjusted the sources to
match.
One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed
into /usr/games/, instead you chose /usr/bin.
For a game that is suprising, so I'd suggest
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:32:30PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
The third was written by someone else, but it's very useful:
Package: svp
Version: 0.2-3
Description: An SVGAlib based viewer for PostScript and PDF files
svp is an SVGAlib based GhostScript frontend, allowing you to
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:32:30PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
The third was written by someone else, but it's very useful:
Package: svp
Version: 0.2-3
Description: An SVGAlib based viewer for PostScript and PDF files
svp is an SVGAlib based GhostScript frontend, allowing you to
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:14:21PM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote:
I've packaged atris - Alizarin Tetris. It is available at
mentors.debian.net in two packages: atris and atris-sounds. I'm
searching a sponsor who will upload it.
Any comments are welcome.
Please consider applying the attached
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:14:21PM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote:
I've packaged atris - Alizarin Tetris. It is available at
mentors.debian.net in two packages: atris and atris-sounds. I'm
searching a sponsor who will upload it.
Any comments are welcome.
Please consider applying the attached
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:04:26AM -0400, James Damour wrote:
My question for this thread is, should I continue to pursue an
independent setid_wrapper, which would solve this requirement as well
as mine, or should I work with the sudo upstream to get a setgid
option added? Put another way,
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
should i write a personla message to the maintainer of this package so
he can change this in his next package release or should i write a mail
to the bts?
Although a private mail is likely to achieve the same result I would
sent a
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
should i write a personla message to the maintainer of this package so
he can change this in his next package release or should i write a mail
to the bts?
Although a private mail is likely to achieve the same result I would
sent a
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:45:09AM +0100, GCS wrote:
Is it adviceable to take over libghttp? It seems the only one package
needs it is libhttp-ghttp-perl and also orphaned. IMHO it would be
better to remove them: gnome-vfs replaces libghttp and perl has other
bindings to http usage.
If it
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:45:09AM +0100, GCS wrote:
Is it adviceable to take over libghttp? It seems the only one package
needs it is libhttp-ghttp-perl and also orphaned. IMHO it would be
better to remove them: gnome-vfs replaces libghttp and perl has other
bindings to http usage.
If it
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:38:23PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
What do you mean by autoconfiscate?
Presumably to make it compile and build with autoconf/automake.
For that the GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool book is very useful.
It's available online and in print:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:38:23PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
What do you mean by autoconfiscate?
Presumably to make it compile and build with autoconf/automake.
For that the GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool book is very useful.
It's available online and in print:
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:07:59PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
Dude we have cars, don't reinvent the automobile.
Grsecurity does this already.
Yes this is true, I'm in the process of testing some of my code
now. I've been working on several different modules this is just
an example.
It
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:39:58AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Either with dh_make templates or (my favorite ;) with m-a, see
/usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO-DEVEL.gz .
I saw somebody else point to this yesterday and now I've read it,
it looks like a good general purpose script. I
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:39:58AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Either with dh_make templates or (my favorite ;) with m-a, see
/usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO-DEVEL.gz .
I saw somebody else point to this yesterday and now I've read it,
it looks like a good general purpose script. I
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:07:59PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
Dude we have cars, don't reinvent the automobile.
Grsecurity does this already.
Yes this is true, I'm in the process of testing some of my code
now. I've been working on several different modules this is just
an example.
It
What is the recommended way to distribute a kernel module?
I see the options as :
1. Making a kernel-patch which could be build with kernel-package.
2. Providing it in source form and expecting the user to build it,
like the nvidia module.
3. Building on my machine to
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:34:00PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it a patch, or a module? I'd expect that most things come as one
or the other.
It's purely a module, and can be built with the kernel headers
installed.
2. Providing it in source
What is the recommended way to distribute a kernel module?
I see the options as :
1. Making a kernel-patch which could be build with kernel-package.
2. Providing it in source form and expecting the user to build it,
like the nvidia module.
3. Building on my machine to
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:34:00PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it a patch, or a module? I'd expect that most things come as one
or the other.
It's purely a module, and can be built with the kernel headers
installed.
2. Providing it in source
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:11:47PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
Why read only for other? Given that they can't execute what is
presumably a compiled binary I'd treat them as untrusted and not allow
them to read it at all.
Why? Quoting policy because I can't reason better: They
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Audio applications or applets (ie. executable files) requiring realtime
privileges should be installed as follows:
- user = root
- group = audio
- permissions
- SUID root
- have a debconf question asking to allow/
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:11:47PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
Why read only for other? Given that they can't execute what is
presumably a compiled binary I'd treat them as untrusted and not allow
them to read it at all.
Why? Quoting policy because I can't reason better: They
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:39:34PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
I just became a full Debian Developer, so don't worry, you don't have to
sponsor anything and all that goes wrong will be blamed on me...
Congratulations :)
Anyways I thought before I upload this package, I'd rather have it
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:43:38PM -0400, andy lesniakowski wrote:
I would like to find a sponsor to upload my package xmms-singit, which I
believe I just adopted. If you want to send it in, please email me at
andylesn at comcast.net. Thanks,
Really you should make the package publically
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:43:38PM -0400, andy lesniakowski wrote:
I would like to find a sponsor to upload my package xmms-singit, which I
believe I just adopted. If you want to send it in, please email me at
andylesn at comcast.net. Thanks,
Really you should make the package publically
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:19:35PM +0200, Philippe Faes wrote:
So, the consensus is NOT hardcode the path.
Yes that's right. I'm sorry for including that part and wasting your
time.
I only applied the changes regarding string overflow and the likes.
:)
Steve
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:19:35PM +0200, Philippe Faes wrote:
So, the consensus is NOT hardcode the path.
Yes that's right. I'm sorry for including that part and wasting your
time.
I only applied the changes regarding string overflow and the likes.
:)
Steve
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Philippe Faes wrote:
This package is now ready to be (checked and) uploaded. It is at:
http://studwww.UGent.be/~pfaes/debian/xspringies
I've also included a screenshot. I'd appreciate any DD can upload it.
Please apply the enclosed patch.
Steve
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
+#define COMPRESS /bin/gzip
+#define UNCOMPRESS /bin/gunzip -c
I've never been a proponent of hardcoding paths to programs. This will
immediately make the program non-portable to basically any non-GNU type
system, and
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:00:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
$PATH is almost always trusted; the exception is setuid programs which
should sanitize PATH. xspringies is not setuid, is it?
It is not setuid/setgid no, but I still think it's best to not trust
the PATH - sure it's not
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:51:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
It is not setuid/setgid no, but I still think it's best to not trust
the PATH - sure it's not critical, but it's a good think just in
case.
Just in case somebody decides to move the programs in question? Witness
grep.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:08:28PM +0200, Philippe Faes wrote:
This package is now ready to be (checked and) uploaded. It is at:
http://studwww.UGent.be/~pfaes/debian/xspringies
I've also included a screenshot. I'd appreciate any DD can upload it.
Please apply the enclosed patch.
Steve
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
+#define COMPRESS /bin/gzip
+#define UNCOMPRESS /bin/gunzip -c
I've never been a proponent of hardcoding paths to programs. This will
immediately make the program non-portable to basically any non-GNU type
system, and
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:00:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
$PATH is almost always trusted; the exception is setuid programs which
should sanitize PATH. xspringies is not setuid, is it?
It is not setuid/setgid no, but I still think it's best to not trust
the PATH - sure it's not
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:51:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
It is not setuid/setgid no, but I still think it's best to not trust
the PATH - sure it's not critical, but it's a good think just in
case.
Just in case somebody decides to move the programs in question? Witness
grep.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it?s compiled for
Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it for
my version of Debian.
How can I recompile it? I have those files:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it?s compiled for
Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it for
my version of Debian.
How can I recompile it? I have those files:
Hi,
I've just finished creating and testing a new package,
libapache-mod-virgule, this is the module which is behind the
Advogato.org website.
The module uses a set of .xml files for it's configuration, and
for storing user login details - and I'm a little unsure as to
where they should
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:07:12AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
Are the files purely written by Apache or are they configuration
files? If the latter, then I think they should reside in /etc.
Otherwise I think /var/lib is the correct place for them.
Both unfortunately.
There's a couple of
Hi,
I've just finished creating and testing a new package,
libapache-mod-virgule, this is the module which is behind the
Advogato.org website.
The module uses a set of .xml files for it's configuration, and
for storing user login details - and I'm a little unsure as to
where they should
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:07:12AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
Are the files purely written by Apache or are they configuration
files? If the latter, then I think they should reside in /etc.
Otherwise I think /var/lib is the correct place for them.
Both unfortunately.
There's a couple of
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:42:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
You should really ask Russell Coker on -devel. There may well be a
policy to limit postinst scripts to the things that postinst scripts
typically do.
Thanks I shall.
I was thinking was that a postinst script, or package
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
BTW never forget that external archive can be as dangerous as usefull.
Warn ALWAYS the user that is not an official repository and don't use it
only for your own glory.. help the official maintainer with what it will
come
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
BTW never forget that external archive can be as dangerous as usefull.
Warn ALWAYS the user that is not an official repository and don't use it
only for your own glory.. help the official maintainer with what it will
come
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used
conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages
may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an
ored dependency
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:55:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Yes, it's very hard to get right and even if you do, mostly, there is
still the issue of mapping perl modules into debian packages, which
would be hard for debhelper to do, as it would have to depend on having
Mapping from a perl
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used
conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages
may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an
ored dependency
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:23:15PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
What are the documents tools that I must read? The Debian New
Maintainers guide suppose that I debianize annother program. But I do
not want to patch my program (in the sense of making a patch file) but
to release the
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:23:15PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
What are the documents tools that I must read? The Debian New
Maintainers guide suppose that I debianize annother program. But I do
not want to patch my program (in the sense of making a patch file) but
to release the
I'll keep this brief because I'm not sure this is the best place
to ask this.
Is there a way to discover the popularity of Debian packages,
(such things as number of installations, and the architechture of
the install base)?
I've seen the 'popularity-contest' package which produces
I'll keep this brief because I'm not sure this is the best place
to ask this.
Is there a way to discover the popularity of Debian packages,
(such things as number of installations, and the architechture of
the install base)?
I've seen the 'popularity-contest' package which produces the
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:26:03AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
That's /usr/share/doc/...
Yeah, thanks.
If you use the debhelper tools (dh_installdocs in this case I think),
they'll set up the /usr/doc for you automatically.
I'm not using them, hence the question. I believe that it's no
I've almost finished creating a package for htmlpp a html preprocessor
which has lots of example files.
There's a makefile target 'install-docs' which I've modified to install
things into /usr/share/docs/htmlpp/.
Is this sufficient - or should I setup a link from /usr/doc as well?
After a bit more tweaking I have a new package for gnump3d, I'm still
having one problem though:
Now running lintian...
E: gnump3d: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/init.d/gnump3d
E: gnump3d: init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/gnump3d
Finished running lintian.
In my
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
You have to mark it as conffile, see Policy 11.7.
http://www.at.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config%20files
Thanks - I've got it sorted out now.
(I already had some config file setup; but the init.d
I'm looking for a sponsor for one of my applications to help
me on the road to becoming a Debian developer.
The application which I'd like to start with is called GNUMP3d,
and is a simple webbased streaming server for MP3's and OGG
vorbis audio files.
The homepage of the software is
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